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Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
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Lillian Florence Hellman
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Fashions in sin change.
Lillian Hellman
You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
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But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Lillian Hellman
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
Lillian Hellman
Styles in wit change so.
Lillian Hellman
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
Lillian Hellman
as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
Lillian Hellman
We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
Lillian Hellman
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
Lillian Hellman
It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
Lillian Hellman
You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
Lillian Hellman
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
Lillian Hellman
the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
Lillian Hellman
But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
Lillian Hellman
The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
Lillian Hellman
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
Lillian Hellman
I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
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